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Meanjin 84.2 Winter 2025

Meanjin 84.2 Winter 2025

What is a revolution? What are the sounds of the commons, the crickets, the carpark, the quails and ..

Author: Anatolitis, Esther

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Migraine

Migraine

'A mine of treasures, a source of visions, a microcosm of human experience and suffering, the philos..

Author: Sacks, Oliver

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Misfits:  Personal Manifesto

Misfits: Personal Manifesto

The ground-breaking much-awaited debut by leading British star Michaela Coel. A personal and powerfu..

Author: Coel, Michaela

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No Judgement: On Being Critical

No Judgement: On Being Critical

As a critic, Lauren Oyler has spent a lot of time writing essays that attempt to convince an audienc..

Author: Oyler, Lauren

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No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain

No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain

This book's title, No Straight Road Takes You There, is an evocation and a declaration. Highways ten..

Author: Solnit, Rebecca

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On the Move: A Life

On the Move: A Life

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will g..

Author: Sacks, Oliver

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Papatuanuku: A collection of writings by Indigenous wahine

Papatuanuku: A collection of writings by Indigenous wahine

A collection of writings by Indigenous wahine is a powerful anthology of writing by Maori and Pacifi..

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Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance

Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance

'Responsible but not beholden; substantial as well as symbolic; sympathetic but not pandering; polit..

Author: Younge, Gary

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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

In 1872, Eadward Muybridge - a British photographer, who had landed in California during the Gold Ru..

Author: Solnit, Rebecca

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Running Book:  Journey through Memory, Landscape and History

Running Book: Journey through Memory, Landscape and History

It is summer, the hay and silage have not yet been made on John Connell's farm, so he has time to in..

Author: Connell, John

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Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

One of Esquire's 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books ..

Author: Vara, Vauhini

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Selected Essays (Collins Classics)

Selected Essays (Collins Classics)

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'When I was about ..

Author: Orwell, George

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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

A legendary editor's survey of the twentieth-century novel and how it shaped the form for years to c..

Author: Frank, Edwin

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Table Talk: Opinions, stories, and a play

Table Talk: Opinions, stories, and a play

Poet, fiction writer, critic, essayist, teacher and academic, C.K. Stead has made his mark on all th..

Author: Stead, C.K.

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The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Anatomy of Melancholy

A guidebook to melancholia or depression, and a masterly, all-encompassing examination of the human ..

Author: Robert Burton

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